It's been painfully obvious for some time now what the House GOP strategy is. All investigations of Obama, no legislating at all (or, at least, no legislating that has a chance of turning into reality). In effect, the GOP is conceding that it has nothing to offer the American people that the American people might actually like. All it can do, in a desperate attempt to regain control of the political process in Washington, is mobilize all of its resources in an attempt to destroy Obama.
But is that effort really succeeding? I saw this Quinnipiac poll the other day, and initially thought it supported a "yes" answer to that question. I've taken a second look at it, and now I'm not so sure.
My initial reaction was provoked by the fact that it showed an overwhelming number of Americans wanted the IRS non-scandal investigated by a special prosecutor. The rest of the poll data, however, is not so rosy for the GOP.
It shows that voters dislike the Democrats by a five-point margin--but dislikes the Tea Party by a ten-point margin and the Republican Party as a whole by a fifteen-point margin. Perhaps more significantly, it shows that voters are more concerned about job-creation than they are about the non-scandals. And, even in the special prosecutor call, perhaps it's possible to see a lack of confidence in the House GOP's investigating ability. Too bad for the voters who want that special prosecutor that a previous GOP Congress allowed the statute authorizing the appointment of special prosecutors to expire.
All in all, there are warning signs here for the all-investigation, no-legislation GOP. Those investigations had better turn up something major, to justify the lack of job creation. Otherwise, in 2014, the voters may put their own spin on the Hastert rule--by making the Tea Party the majority of the minority.
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